R2K holds meeting in Cape Town, march in DurbanIn response to the ongoing SABC crisis, the Right2Know Campaign will be hosting a public meeting on Wednesday 20 July at Isivivana Centre, 1 Julius Tsolo Street in Khayelitsha, Cape Town at 5pm and will march to the SABC Durban offices on Tuesday 26 July from 9am. The organisation calls on unions, civil society, media workers and members of the public to join it in demanding an end to political interference in the public broadcaster. Right2Know Campaign's demands:
2. We demand that the SABC’s illegally revised editorial policies be scrapped and all journalists suspended under SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s edict be reinstated with immediate effect It is not only the public broadcaster – the news staple for millions of households across the country – that is at stake, but also the very freeness and fairness of the hotly contested up-coming elections. If the SABC’s mandate to inform the public is compromised, then doubt will be cast over the legitimacy of these elections. There can be no free and fair elections with a public broadcaster that is muzzled. The Zuma-Muthambi-Motsoeneng axis must be stopped. The SABC can expect further mass action until the organisation’s demands are met. For updates, follow R2K on Twitter: @r2kcampaign. Read about the interdict against SABC censorship here. Read about the crowdsource campaign, 'Friends of the SABC journalists' here. |